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June 6, 2010
Tornado Watch in Effect For New York City
New York City's five boroughs -- the crowded streets, big buildings, Central Park, Staten Island and the rest of this huge beautiful mess -- are under an extreme storm alert, including a tornado watch until 8 p.m. Sunday night, according to the National Weather Service. It's the first such wa ... More >>
Voice Choices
June 8, 2010
'Rocks Off Concert Cruises Presents the Budos Band'
New York City's five boroughs -- the crowded streets, big buildings, Central Park, Staten Island and the rest of this huge beautiful mess -- are under an extreme storm alert, including a tornado watch until 8 p.m. Sunday night, according to the National Weather Service. It's the first such wa ... More >>
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June 11, 2010
Morning Links: BP Spill Far Worse Than Exxon-Valdez, Ex-Inmate Gets $300,000 Payout for Squashed Balls, the World Cup Begins
• Prepare to feel depressed: According to new estimates, "an amount equivalent to the Exxon Valdez disaster could be flowing into the Gulf of Mexico every 8 to 10 days." Ugh. President Obama is asking to meet with BP execs next week, and Congress is pressuring BP to stop paying shareholders ... More >>
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July 27, 2010
Honeychiles' Cajun Cooking, A New Restaurant Inside Williamsburg Dive Charleston
Fried shrimp po'boyCharleston, the dive bar/music venue on Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg, used to offer free pizza with each drink. It was a good deal, but not nearly as tasty as what's going on in the kitchen now. Honeychiles' is a new restaurant within the bar, opened by Jesse Crawford and ... More >>
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July 30, 2010
Police Seek Suspects in Staten Island Hate Crime
The NYPD is asking for the public's assistance in identifying two suspects wanted in connection with a Staten Island assault that occurred on Wednesday, July 7. A 50-year-old hispanic man was walking on Port Richmond Avenue toward Harrison Avenue at about 4 p.m. when he bumped into a black female. T ... More >>
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August 6, 2010
MTV Is Doing a Staten Island Version of Jersey Shore
That's what I just heard, and as someone who has Italian-American friends in Staten Island, I'm certain that this will be another wow-apolooza. In fact, no coaching or scripting will even be necessary. These people act up like gangbusters!
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August 21, 2010
Yet Another Bias Attack Proves Staten Island Not a Friendly Place
Staten Island is the smallest borough in New York City. Amazing, then, that it's had such a preponderance of bias attacks lately, including a new one under investigation involving a 15-year-old Mexican boy.
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August 31, 2010
Faith Kramer, Health Teacher Who Let Kids Say "Furburger," Settles with City for $45,000
The 26-year tenured Staten Island health teacher who allowed students to use slang sexual terms when she taught a lesson about AIDS filed a $1 million suit against the city for wrongfully suspending her, and has now agreed to settle the case for $45,000 -- an amount comparable to a first-year ... More >>
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September 15, 2010
This Week in the Voice: The Endless Bummer of Staten Island
All the way out on the south shore of Staten Island lies a quiet, tucked-away community called the Cedar Grove Beach Club, a "poor man's Bermuda" for the few Staten Islanders who knew about it and summered there. That's all over now, as the city's Parks Department plans to turn the 200-acre p ... More >>
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September 22, 2010
Concord Grapes at the Market, In the Glass
wherestherevolutionConcordia cum veritae.Just as the lament over the end of peach season begins to take hold, Concord grapes have swept into local farmers markets, making us forget all about our stone fruit infatuation. These bright bluer-than-blueberry blue orbs are bursting with such Welch' ... More >>
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September 28, 2010
Tornadoes Just Can't Get Enough of New York City: Watch On Till 6 P.M.
Remember the Brooklyn/Staten Island/Queens tornado of less than two weeks ago? The one that knocked down a bunch of trees and freaked out a bunch of hipsters and led to this amazing video? Well, charge up your camera phones. There's a tornado watch currently on for the tristate area -- includ ... More >>
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October 1, 2010
Staten Island Couple Can Sue Morgue for Keeping Son's Brain. In a Jar. Without Telling Them
A Staten Island couple has been given the right to sue the city for keeping their deceased son's brain, according to a ruling from Brooklyn's New York Appellate Division. Consider this something that we will now worry about when we can't sleep at night.
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October 4, 2010
Q&A: Rapper 9th Prince On His Older Brother RZA And The Early Days Of The Wu-Tang Clan
The Wu-Tang Clan is hip-hop's most enduring family. Thanks to seemingly unbreakable bonds both artistic and familial, the now eight-strong crew of rappers is still together, despite frequent -- and usually shoddily sourced -- media claims that they're about to implode due to rampant bickering ... More >>
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November 2, 2010
Eating Goat Eyeball Tacos in Staten Island
The eyeball-popping parking lot mural was a harbinger of what was to follow. It was a gothic conclusion to a very gothic day. It started out with a trip on the Staten Island Ferry to New Brighton, to a neighborhood overlooking New York's Upper Bay that was once the site of a Revolutionary Wa ... More >>
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November 13, 2010
NYC's Strangest Burger? A Visit to Gourmet Dog in Staten Island
You wouldn't notice Gourmet Dog's small presence on the waterfront if it weren't for the bright signs and the cute dog. Sometimes, the wildest gastronomic experimentation takes places in the most unexpected places - witness Staten Island's Gourmet Dog (40 Richmond Terrace, 718-727-1234).
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November 18, 2010
Staten Islanders Want Their Bike Lanes Back
Cyclists on Staten Island are getting worked up over a decision by the city Department of Transportation to strip away the bike lanes along Capodanno Boulevard in favor of a bus lane and a parking and turning lane. City officials, including a city councilman, the transportation commissioner, ... More >>
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December 3, 2010
Posts of the Week
At last it's Friday afternoon. As the day retreats into a shroud of seasonal gloom, it's time to look back on the week that was. Lauren Shockey, a lifelong New Yorker, lists her top ten childhood restaurants that still exist. Our Man Sietsema goes to Staten Island for some meat and murder. 'Brook ... More >>
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December 6, 2010
MTA Trying to Win You Over With Their Adorable Vintage Subway Cars Again
Most of the year you can get away with hating the MTA outright, for the lack of service, service disruptions, ever-increasing fares, or just 'cause you can. But at holiday time they pull out the big guns, and suddenly you can't help but feeling ever so slightly warmer-and-maybe-even-fuzzy abo ... More >>
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January 18, 2011
Will Staten Islanders Finally Be Able To Leave the Island Easily?
Jersey Shore's Angelina and other trapped Staten Islanders may be able to break out from their homes and travel the world soon. Right now, Staten Island residents have two ways to leave via public transportation: the Staten Island Ferry and express buses. Rumors of a Staten Island railway hav ... More >>
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February 17, 2011
Turkeys Are Taking Over Staten Island
S.I. turkeys not as cuteOur dear old Staten Island has become overrun with turkeys. The State Department of Environmental Conservation has passed out a survey to some Island residents asking them what they should do about the feathery problem. The New York Post reports, "the D.E.C. says no fa ... More >>
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February 17, 2011
10 Crazy Facts Learned From New York City's Complaint Records
New Yorkers love to complain. When we walk down the street we get sidewalk rage, and when we're at home, we can't stop complaining about everything around our homes. 311 just released an interactive map that lets you track complaints over the past year in categories from noise to traffic and ... More >>
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February 22, 2011
Staten Islanders Finally Getting the Chance to Hail a Cab
Staten Islanders have access to the best mode of transportation ever invented by mankind -- the Staten Island Ferry. Getting off of the island is easy, but getting around the island is more difficult because Islanders don't have a good rail service yet. Most Staten Islanders stick to cars, bu ... More >>
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March 3, 2011
The Exotic Jungles of Staten Island Are Full of Pot
via NY PostTwo Staten Island men have been arrested for cultivating a marijuana farm in their apartment. Cops seized 375 marijuana plants and a safe full of money. Weed growers are often caught due to their extremely high power bills (they need to keep the grow lamps running), but this Island ... More >>
Blogs
March 5, 2011
The Weather Is Much Improved: Five Places to Take Advantage in NYC
This weather is really something! For everyone besides weekend bloggers. You're probably out frolicking already, aren't you. But if you're not -- if you're hungover and melting into a blob in front of Jersey Shore, mired in an existential crisis about what you're doing with your life -- it's ... More >>
Blogs
March 11, 2011
Staten Island Teen Dealer Can't Outrun a Horse or Legally Sell Weed Out of a Mayo Jar
A Staten Island teenager was given a summons for carrying a mayonnaise jar filled with weed. We didn't realize that "Hellmann's Medical Strength" had come out yet, but it sounds great. The teen was meeting with a group of kids his age in a shady part of Miller Field on Staten Island and the cops ... More >>
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March 30, 2011
'Devil' Man in Staten Island Lights Poop-Covered Door on Fire
Charred door poop (Staten Island Advance/John Annese)Okay, this is absurd because one of the following attacks would get the point across just fine: A Staten Island man by the name of Rasheen (Illuminati) Harrison (?) stripped naked, rubbed poop on the door of his pregnant ex-girlfriend's a ... More >>
Blogs
May 11, 2011
Five Dishes Worth Traveling From Anywhere To Get
The steamed fish head with pickled chili sauce is a Hunanese miracle. Reviewing restaurants requires a long lag time, and two or three months often separate the first time I visit a place and when the critique appears in print. But sometimes, dishes are so exciting, that I can't wait to tel ... More >>
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May 12, 2011
Most New Yorkers Like Bike Lanes, But Does Anyone Use Them?
Despite some very bitter and ugly public battles, a majority of New Yorkers approve of bike lanes, according to a poll released this week. The Quinnipiac University poll found that 56 percent of city voters say bike lanes "are good because it's greener and healthier for people to ride." The b ... More >>
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May 15, 2011
Report from Saturday's Hester Street Fair
A couple enjoys some very small donut holes with caramel sauce ($2) from Wonder City. As Rebecca Marx promised, the Hester Street Fair has returned this year with a much greater emphasis on food. When Fork in the Road dropped by this past Saturday (the fair's second week), there were indeed ... More >>
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May 19, 2011
Frank Console, 49, Just Too Frank: Locked Up for Making Lunatic Death Threats
In one of the noisier, and sadder, cries for help heard in a long time, 49-year-old Brooklynite Frank Console was nabbed after making a series of death threats against various state and local politicians and the Staten Island cops. Calling by phone to 911 from the St. George Ferry Terminal on ... More >>
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May 20, 2011
Staten Island Dump May Get Windmills to Give New York Renewable Energy
Wind and solar energy are probably the two coolest "human tricks" that we've pulled in the past 100 years. We've all seen the commercials for wind energy that feature cars speeding through plains (or deserts), past rolling hills studded with beautiful white towers. Gorgeous! And solar energy? ... More >>
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May 24, 2011
Staten Island Dancer Is New York's Newest Celebrity Weirdo
People dancing excessively in public is usually best left to flashmobs and those annoying fountain guys in Washington Square Park. But Staten Island has now been blessed with the presence of their own street dancer. And this guy isn't just your three-minute-and-leave-type dancer. He wears head-to-t ... More >>
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June 15, 2011
Gay Marriage in New York: Over the Hump Today?
Today could be the day when gay marriage equality passes its biggest hurdle in New York State yet and actually achieves something it never has before: likely passage in the state senate. With 31 of the necessary 32 votes already publicly announced, the effort only needs one GOP senator for th ... More >>
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June 27, 2011
Michael Bloomberg, Billionaire Mayor, Recommends Staten Island Ferry For a Date
Our venerable mayor has an idea for an oh-so-precious date that seems to come right out of the HowAboutWe playbook (in fact, it does come from the HowAboutWe playbook!). How about we...sit on the Staten Island Ferry and gaze romantically out at Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty? That's w ... More >>
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July 7, 2011
Staten Island Mosquitoes Have Summer's First Cases of West Nile
Today the NYC Health Department has announced that the West Nile Virus has been discovered in mosquitoes on Staten Island. These are the first documented cases of West Nile in the city this summer. No human cases of the virus have been found yet. The Health Department is trying to control the ... More >>
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July 8, 2011
Bedbugs Visit Staten Island Jail
Despite early rumors that this would be the "summer of bedbugs," we've heard relatively little as the doings of those adorable creatures this season, especially compared to prior years. Remember when they took over Victoria's Secret, Hollister, Hachette Filipacchi, the U.N., the Time Warner C ... More >>
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July 16, 2011
Brooklyn Supermarket Resorting to Olfactory Mind Control
A chain of supermarkets in Brooklyn and Staten Island has started piping in food scents to their stores in an effort to subliminally encourage customers to buy stuff. Scents you might smell in NetCost Market include "Lindt Chocolate," "Smoky Bacon," and "Rosemary Focaccia." A shopper in Sheepshea ... More >>
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August 15, 2011
New York City Teenagers Are Drinking And Grinding
There are two big developments in the lives of New York City teenagers this week. Number one is that the Post has exposed a third of them as underage drinkers, especially in Staten Island; the second is that the New York Times has introduced a column just for them, or rather about them. It's "a m ... More >>
Voice Choices
September 7, 2011
Cymbals Eat Guitars
There are two big developments in the lives of New York City teenagers this week. Number one is that the Post has exposed a third of them as underage drinkers, especially in Staten Island; the second is that the New York Times has introduced a column just for them, or rather about them. It's "a m ... More >>
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October 6, 2011
Watch the Verrazano Bridge Deer Rescue
Here's your heartwarming adorable animal rescue story for the day. A deer dubbed "Rudolph" by cops was rescued from the water under the Verrazano Bridge yesterday. Apparently his back legs had been bound by twine, which led to his struggles. Fortunately, a good citizen called 911 and the deer was re ... More >>
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October 12, 2011
5 More New York City Parks Will Get Free Wireless Internet This Week
Earlier this year the city announced a five-year plan with AT&T to bring free Wi-Fi to 26 spots in 20 New York City parks throughout the boroughs. This Thursday, Astoria Park in Queens, Herbert Von King Park and McCarren Park Field House in Brooklyn, Tompkins Square Park in Manhattan, and Clo ... More >>
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October 26, 2011
Anthony Bologna, Pepper-Spray Cop, Exiled to Staten Island
Anthony Bologna, the much maligned white-shirted NYPD Deputy Inspector who pepper-sprayed a group of women, including Chelsea Elliott and Kaylee Dedrick, as they protested with Occupy Wall Street back in September (they are each pursuing cases against him), has been transferred to Staten Island. As ... More >>
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November 2, 2011
The East Village Comes in Third for the Most Chain Stores in New York City
Not a chain.New Yorkers (most of them, it seems) profess a grand dislike of chain stores, especially when they have to wait in line to get their overpriced lattes from Starbucks! The good news for such people is this: According to the Center for an Urban Future's annual survey on chain stores ... More >>
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November 10, 2011
Fearless Wild Turkeys Bigger Than Children Are Terrorizing Staten Islanders
Wild turkeys are no laughing matter, as one local news reporter found out the hard way earlier this year. Well, it's turkey time again, and they're encroaching closer. And closer. Wild turkeys have been a problem on Staten Island for a while now, and there have been numerous discussions on wh ... More >>
Dining
November 30, 2011
The Indian Clove Plays Its Drums of Heaven
South Asian fare from many regions wows Staten Island
Blogs
November 30, 2011
Robert Sietsema at Indian Clove; Lauren Shockey at Mas(la grillade)
Take the ferry to India. This week in the Voice, Robert Sietsema takes to his bike and visits Staten Island's Indian Clove: "Despite its obscure location not far from Staten Island's Atlantic coast, this slightly upscale spot might be the great multi-regional Indian restaurant we've all been ... More >>
Blogs
December 8, 2011
5 Reasons Why Farmers' Market Baked Goods Often Suck
Chalky, crumbly, low on flavor -- and please leave it in the oven a little longer. You see them lined up on tables between the lavender sprigs and homemade soaps: pale, starchy, looking like a kid who hasn't been in the sun all summer. These are the baked goods of the farmers' markets. And ... More >>
Blogs
January 7, 2012
10 Ways to Enjoy Today's Spring-Like Weather
It's like this outside, but without the leaves.As of writing, it is 62 degrees in New York City. Fahrenheit! If you aren't a numbers person, let us translate: It's comically pleasant outside. People are wearing T-shirts, dogs are going doggie jacket-less, and everyone is happy because they do ... More >>
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January 8, 2012
Year of the Takeout: Day 7
Moo goo gaga Moo Goo Gai Pan from Concord Garden (990 Amsterdam Avenue, 212-316-2866)
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